Interesting show on Discovery today

I was watching an episode of Mayday on discovery today about an Aeroflot
Airbus A310 that crashed in 1994,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593

Anyway without getting into a long post I posted a link to the disaster and
subsequent investigation into the reasons for the crash.

Now I was wondering if the airline manufactures and the airlines have now
added an audible warning when all or part of the autopilot is disengaged.
Seems if there was such a warning then this crash may never have happened

Just wondering if anyone else has any opinions about this?

GDBholdings wrote:
I was watching an episode of Mayday on discovery today about an Aeroflot
Airbus A310 that crashed in 1994,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593

Anyway without getting into a long post I posted a link to the disaster and
subsequent investigation into the reasons for the crash.

Now I was wondering if the airline manufactures and the airlines have now
added an audible warning when all or part of the autopilot is disengaged.
Seems if there was such a warning then this crash may never have happened

Just wondering if anyone else has any opinions about this?

Don't let people unfamiliar with flying large aircraft attempt to fly
large aircraft... they should be thrilled enough with a jump-seat.

The fact that the pilot decided to get out of his seat and allow anyone
(even his own son, and earlier his daughter) to touch the controls of
an aircraft even when the Autopilot is engaged is irresponsible at
least.

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The fact that the pilot decided to get out of his seat and allow anyone
(even his own son, and earlier his daughter) to touch the controls of
an aircraft even when the Autopilot is engaged is irresponsible at least.


Not disagreeing with yr thoughts but the problem seems elsewhere in
this particular incident. And don't forget that there was one fully
qualified pilot on the other seat!


Ramapriya

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Not disagreeing with yr thoughts but the problem seems elsewhere in
this particular incident.

Where might that be?

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Mxsmanic wrote:
writes:

Not disagreeing with yr thoughts but the problem seems elsewhere in
this particular incident.

Where might that be?

Buried within the third paragraph of that Wikipedia article.

Cheers,
Ramapriya

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The fact that the pilot decided to get out of his seat and allow anyone
(even his own son, and earlier his daughter) to touch the controls of
an aircraft even when the Autopilot is engaged is irresponsible at
least.

Aeroflot apparently has a reputation for pilots with good piloting
skills (which they often need, given the poor state of maintenance of
the aircraft). However, this particular pilot sounds like an idiot.

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The fact that the pilot decided to get out of his seat and allow anyone
(even his own son, and earlier his daughter) to touch the controls of
an aircraft even when the Autopilot is engaged is irresponsible at
least.

Aeroflot apparently has a reputation for pilots with good piloting
skills (which they often need, given the poor state of maintenance of
the aircraft). However, this particular pilot sounds like an idiot.

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Smart people do stupid stuff once in a while. Hindsight is always 20/20.

In article ,
"Darkwing" theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com wrote:

Smart people do stupid stuff once in a while. Hindsight is always 20/20.

Actually, hindsight isn't always 20/20. Plenty of people look at
something that happened and still can't figure it out.

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Bob Noel
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lawyers will hate

"Darkwing" theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com wrote

Smart people do stupid stuff once in a while. Hindsight is always 20/20.

Like responding to a troll's bait?
--
Jim in NC

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Smart people do stupid stuff once in a while. Hindsight is always 20/20.

True, However but smart pilots seem to know when the mistakes are starting
to add up to the "BIG"one and stop.

I have always been told by my instructors that it is not just one simple
mistake that will make you crash but an accumulation of mistakes.